Adam waszkiewicz



(No Mod-e1.)

A. WASZKIEWIOZ. APPARATUS 'FOR STEAMING CLOTH.

Patented Aug. 13, 1889.

WITNESSES INVENTEIR N. PLTERi Phom-Ulhognpher. Waxhinglun. u c.

UNITED STATES ADAM WVASZKIEIVICZ,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEIV YORK, N. .Y.

APPARATUS FOR STEAMING CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,775, dated August 13, 1889.

Application filed May 14, 1889. Serial No. 310,723- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ADA-M WVASZKIEWICZ, of New York city, New York, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Steaming Cloth, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for steaming or sponging cloth. The machine is so constructed that the cloth is steamed while being fed over a straight perforated surface. Thus the cloth will not be unevenly stretched, as is the case if steamed while being wound 011 rollers.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a top View of my improved cloth-steaming machine. Fig. 2 is a top View of the steambox with the muslin partly broken away. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectionon line 0001:, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, an end view of the machine.

The letter-a represents a box adapted to be secured to a work-table by screws 19, passing through flanges on its bottom plate 0. This bottom plate connects with steam-inlet (Z, while the fiat top e of the box is provided with a large number of perforations e. Over this topasheet of muslin f is stretched, which is held in place by a frame g, encircling the box. The object of the muslin is to prevent direct action of the steam on the cloth. To a suitable upright 71, beyond the front and rear of the box, is secured a rubber cushion 2', over which the cloth j to be steamed is passed. A cover 7: incloses the box and uprights. This cover is provided above the cushions t' with corresponding cushions m. The cush- The steam-escape takes place through an elbow-pipe 02, connected to the cover and adapted to be coupled to a steam-pipe.

In use the cloth j is placed upon cushions 2' over box a and the cover 7c is put in place. Steam is now admitted and the cloth is fed along by a pair of hollow rollers 0 0, heated by gas andheld together by springs 19. As the cloth is being fed along, it is subjected'to the action of the finely-divided steam. The steam, as will be seen, always acts upon a straight surface of cloth, and thus the cloth will not become unevenly stretched. A uniform result will therefore be obtained and no creases or folds of any kind will be formed.

Vhat I claim is 1. The combination of box at, having a steaminlet and perforated top 6, with cover It, having a steam-outlet, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of box a, having steaminlet and perforated top 6, with cover 70 and uprights h, having cushioned edges for the admission and discharge of the cloth, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of box a, having a steaminlet and a perforated top, with frame g,holding muslin f, and with cover is, having a steam-outlet, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, in a cloth-steaming machine, of the following elements: a steambox with perforated top, a surrounding muslin-holding frame, a cover having a steamoutlet, cushions between which the cloth is admitted and discharged, and a pairof clothfeedingheated rollers, substantially as specified.

ADAM WVASZKIEWVICZ.

WVitnesses:

F. v. BRIEsEN, HENRY E. ROEDER. 

